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5 Big Trades to Profit as S&P Tests Record Highs

BALTIMORE (
Stockpickr) -- It's a big day for stocks, whether it feels like one or not. Thanks to tomorrow's Good Friday's market reprieve, today is the last market session in March, and more important, the final trading day of the first quarter.

As I write, the
S&P 500 also happens to be within 0.15% of hitting its all-time closing high from back in 2007 -- we're talking a measly 2.3 points in the big index, here. That means that equity prices are practically a rounding error away from ending higher than they've ever been before. If that doesn't make today a potentially big day for stocks, nothing does.

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